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MatthewPhillips on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter

NPM already provides this functionality and Isaacs has said that people should use NPM for client-side packages.

tjholowaychuk on Sept 11, 2012 | [–]

I'd definitely defend bower here, there's no reason to use npm for this, it just makes things confusing and ambiguous, and leads to stupid suffices or prefixes like the several "-component" modules I have

aeosynth on Sept 10, 2012 | [–]

> Isaacs has said that people should use NPM for client-side packages.

Link?

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